[33360] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: net.terrorism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Tue Jan 9 10:45:39 2001
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 09:44:09 -0500
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon@eiv.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <3A5B0D07.E96A22C1@greendragon.com>; from wsimpson@greendragon.com on Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:07:48AM -0500
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:07:48AM -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>=20
> > the position to be net.gods and for political reasons destroy the free
> > character of the internet.
> >=20
> I've been involved for over 20 years, and don't remember this "free=20
> character". Perhaps there is a language translation problem? That=20
Yeah, last time I checked, the Internet was primarily made up of privately-
owned pieces of cable, hooked together through privately-owned pieces of
equipment, residing in privately-owned buildings, monitored and maintained
by employees of privately and shareholder-owned companies.
Information may want to be free, but fiber optic cable wants to be
a million US dollars per mile.
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